OT: General knowledge test # 528A

[wire chief]

Keep your politics to self. Please do not hit REPLY, nor do research.

1..The bottom dwelling ______ ________ (to 23') is the largest freshwater fish.

2..Ford's Veep?

3..Where specifically was the I-Have-A- Dream speech?

4..Who garnered 7 gold medals in Munich?

5..The 2 companions of the lass with the dirty red bandana?

6..Translate-ragazzina, ragazza

7..Overdose deaths in US in 2016: 15k, 25k, 35k, 50k, 60k, 75k

8..She(?) leads all with 4 acting Oscars.

9..Ty Cobb debuts with what club?

10..Leona (Hotel Queen) Helmsley is found guilty of..?

11..How many states protect youths from conversion therapy?

12..Morocco's largest cities: C, F, T, M, R.

13.."Horizon" appears in a Ben E. King title and a Moody Blues one also. Complete titles?

 

[DriveLH]

4. Mark Spitz
5. Truck driver and Bobby McGee

 

[chj001]

2. Nelson A. Rockefeller
3. Steps of Lincoln Memorial
4. Mark Spitz
8. Katherine Hepburn
10. Meanness in the 1st Degree
12. Casablanca, Fez, Tangier, Marrakesh, Rabat

 

[ed4ourgirls]

9. Detroit?

10. Tax evasion.

 

[pinotbear]

1. hmmmm.. there are some enormous catfish, so, it could be something like the Nile catfish or Yangtze catfish or somesuch... or, it could be a sturgeon, which also get ginormous. Let's guess longnose sturgeon.

 

[Gamecockfan77]

1. catfish
2. Nelson Rockefeller
3. Lincoln Memorial, DC
4. Mark Spitz
8. Kate Hepburn
9. Detroit Tigers

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

4 - Mark Spitz. I remember watching on TV.
9. I'm pretty sure Cobb spent his entire career with Detroit - the Tigers

 

[SVCBeercats]

1. Beluga Sturgeon; Thank you, 007!

3. Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.

4. Mark Spitz

6. The Big Ragu!

8. Katharine Hepburn

9. Detroit Tigers

10. Tax evasion

12. Morocco's largest cities: Casablanca, Fez, Tangier, Marrakesh, R?????

 

[huskyrob1]

1) Sturgeon
4) Mark Spitz
8) Katherine Hepburn
10) insider trading

 

[k9fanatic]

6. Ragazza -- girl/young woman. Ragazzina -- girl/young girl

 

[FairView]

2..Nelson Rockefeller
3..Waashington DC
4..Mark Spits
5..Bobby McGee and the guy driving the Diesel Dan
7..25k,
8..Meryl Streep?
9..Detroit
10..Tax evasion
13.. Moody Blues is New Horizon

 

[Bigboote]

1..Amazon(?) catfish

2..Nelson Rockefeller

3..Lincoln Memorial/the Mall

4..Mark Spitz

5..Bobby McGee and the truck driver

7..25k?

8..Katharine Hepburn (late of Old Saybrook)

9..The Tigers

10..Tax evasion

12..Casablanca, Fez, Tangier, ?, Rabat

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Giant catfish
2. Nelson Rockefeller(Our richest vice president)
3. The Reflecting Pool which is in front of the Lincoln Memorial
4. Mark Spitz
5. Bobby McGee and her harpoon
7. 60k
8. Katherine Hepburn
10. Income tax evasion(Ms Helmsley's private plane, a Boeing 727. In all the times I saw her embark on her jet, she was the only human passenger(her dogs accompanied her). She would arrive in one car, her luggage in another)
11. 5
12. C, F, T, M, R
Casablanca, F???, Tangiers, Marrakesh, Ribat. Hopefully, all the answers are not in the CSN&Y song. Two, though, definitely are.

 

[wire chief]

1..The caviar craving trio gets this.

2..The VAUC Quartet fingers Happy's hubby.

3..Chj leads a quintet by being more specific than just "Washington, DC.

4..Well, shees, Fairview, of course he spits, for a swimmer takes on water, no?

5..

6..You want to see if you can get K9 out from under her bed, ask about the Italian language.

7..It is 60k, And VAUC knew them all.

8..Tons of you know Spencer's better half.

9..Ed4 leads a foursome, declaring him a Tiger,,,and a reputation to match.

10..I am curious about VAUC's function while he did all this Helmsley tracking. Did you provide
evidence at her trial?

11..VAUC is a dependable guesser, while the rest of you shrink from such a situation. It's 9.

12..Chj needed to put on his burka to be the only poster to get all 5.

13..Fair is correct with New Horizons. Here's the other.

 

[VAUConnFan]

10. I was an air traffic controller at the Westchester County Airport at White Plains NY(HPN) for 17 years. HPN is the corporate jet capital of the country which afforded opportunities to see many well known people, Ms Helmsley among them.